Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's class, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History—inspired by and named for her 2007 book—is “a hands-on introduction to history making in its many forms,” and the Schlesinger’s manuscripts and artifacts are the means.

Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library is what a local NPR affiliate has called “the area’s best under-the-radar film series.”

This photograph by Judith Sedwick of the trade union activist Maida Springer Kemp was part of the Women of Courage exhibit, based on the Black Women Oral History Project. Courtesy of Schlesinger Library

The former New York Supreme Court judge Paula Omansky ’56, JD ’62—who has served on the Schlesinger Library Council since 2006—has often found herself at the center of media and public attention, including when she presided over a case against Phil Spector.